NEW MOON REPORT
Nehemia Gordon from Jerusalem, Israel compiled the following New Moon Reports for the months of June and July 2012 and the beginnings of the Fourth and Fifth months on the Biblical Calendar.
June
– “On Thursday
June 21, 2012 the new moon was sighted from
from
July
– On
Saturday July 21, 2012, the new moon was sighted from Israel from Kefar Eldad
by Yoel Halevi at 7:37pm; from Jerusalem by Aryeh Levi at 7:37pm; from
elsewhere in Jerusalem by Shiloh and Hinanit David at 7:39pm; from Poriya Illit
by Deborah Boer at 7:45 followed by Tim Boer;
from a third location in Jerusalem by Devorah Gordon at 7:49pm. Yoel Halevi's photos of the new
moon from Kefar Eldad are posted at:”
https://www.facebook.com/NehemiaGordon
The
next New Moon is expected to be visible from
The
ninth day of Av starts at sunset July 29, and ends at sunset July 30 for those
interested.
I
had a number of setbacks in July. My
chronic pain condition flared up which was most likely do to the heat. A construction crew cut my Internet cable and
it took a few days to get it back up again.
I was also busy getting the new subscription year started up and sending
out passwords, etc., etc., etc. So
what’s new, lol.
I
decided to do a July/August issue this year instead of the September/October
issue. It only makes sense at this point
to do so. The September and October
issues will be done separately this year.
There are a number of
interesting planetary line-ups in July.
I sent out the weekly Sky & Telescope’s This Week’s Sky at a
Glance to all the online subscribers.
Those events, except for the Biblical interpretation, were shown. I will recap those events below. Out of the 200 plus subscribers to Biblical
Astronomy, all but three or four have Internet access. I apologize to those three or four who do not
have Internet access for getting these events to you after they have happened.
We left off in late June
with the planets Jupiter and Venus starting to line up with the
stars Aldebaran and the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus. This is shown on the chart in the lower left
on page 5 in the June newsletter. The
planets continued their unique dance through the constellation throughout July
and will continue waltzing into August.
Since May 2012, there have
been a host of signs in Taurus and we are not done quite yet. Below is a list of some of these events.
May 20 – Annular Solar
Eclipse.
May 22 – Venus, El Nath,
and New Moon lineup.
June 5/6 – Rare Venus
transit of the Sun.
June 17 – Crescent moon and Jupiter.
June 29 – Jupiter, Venus,
Aldebaran, Pleiades.
July 12 – Venus at
greatest brilliancy –4.7.
July 15 – Waning crescent, Jupiter, Venus and
Aldebaran.
It
may be beneficial to look at the celestial events in the May and June
newsletters to refresh your memory.
Below are some major events for July.
The chart below from
Astronomy.com shows the waning crescent moon, Jupiter, Venus and
the star Aldebaran grouping in the form of a tight, spectacular
quadrangle in the early morning sky above the eastern horizon on July 15,
2012. This took place near to the star
cluster Hyades in the constellation Taurus. The star cluster Pleiades is seen just
above the grouping.
Jupiter
(Zedek) represents Messiah as the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. Venus (Nogah) represents Messiah as
the Bright and Morning Star.
Aldebaran means the leader or governor. The Hyades means the congregated. The Syriac name for the Pleiades is Succoth,
which means booths. This
cluster is also known as the seven sisters.
It also represents the seven stars in the right hand of Messiah, which
in turn represent of the seven angels of the seven congregations mentioned in
Revelation 1. The brightest star in the
Pleiades is Al Cyone, which means the center, and has given the
idea to some astronomers that it is the center of the whole universe. The moon represents Yahweh’s or YehoVAH’s
faithful witness.
Here we go again with the
name thing again. I have been using
YehoVAH in my personal prayers for a couple of years now. It just seems to feel
right. Sometimes I use both names to make sure, lol.
The
main theme for the constellation Taurus is Messiah, the coming Judge
of all the earth. If these signs are
pointing to a major Biblical event that is soon to unfold we shall soon
know. Perhaps all Biblical Astronomy
subscribers have been gathered into the heavens and I have been left behind,
lol. I have not heard from anyone in the
past couple of weeks. Not that I
necessarily believe in a pre-trib gathering.
There is certainly no shortage of signs portraying such an event.
The chart below from S&T
shows the triangular massing of Jupiter, Venus and Aldebaran in
the constellation Taurus in the Dawn sky on July 21, 2012.
The
following chart from Astronomy.com shows another quadrangular grouping, but
this one is in the Sign and constellation Virgo (Bethulah). This is not as tightly grouped or as shapely
as the former grouping. This grouping
takes place in the evening sky on July 24, 2012 and is shown here an hour after
sunset in the western sky.
Shown
in this grouping below is the near half moon, the planets Saturn and Mars
(Adom), and the star Spica, or Tsemech in the Hebrew.
Saturn
represents Satan. Mars (Adom) represents either
the atoning blood of Messiah, blood and war, or the warrior archangel
Michael. It is Michael who does battle
with Satan on a number of occasions in the Scriptures. The main theme for the constellation Virgo
(Bethulah) is the Promised Seed of the woman. The Hebrew name for
the star Spica is Tsemech, which means, BRANCH. Tsemech is used exclusively of the
Messiah four times in Scripture and is always translated as BRANCH in
the KJV (Jer. 23:5,6; Zech. 3:8; Zech. 6:12; Isa.
4:2). These scriptures are all
prophetic concerning the first appearing and second appearing of Messiah.
The chart below from S&T
shows a triangular massing of Mars, Spica and Saturn in Bethulah
on July 31, 2012 at one hour past sunset.
JULY METEOR SHOWERS
There are two meteor showers
that peak in July and they both peak on the same night. The article below concerning these two
showers is from Astronomy.com.
Competing showers
show different origins
“Meteor observers should keep
their eyes peeled during July’s second half.
First, the Moon largely avoids the best viewing before dawn. And although the Perseid shower doesn’t peak
until August, its slow buildup provides a significant number of late-July
meteors.
It’s
not the only source, however. Both the
Alpha Capricornid and Southern Delta Aquarid showers peak the night of July 29/30., and they begin a couple of weeks earlier. On the morning of the 30th, the
waxing gibbous Moon sets around 2 A.M. local daylight time, leaving an hour of
dark sky before twilight commences.
The
Alpha-Capricornids produce five meteors per hour under optimal conditions while
the Southern Delta Aquarids generate three or four times as many. These meteors radiate from the southern
constellations Capricornus and Aquarius, respectively, while the competing
Perseids emanate from Perseus in the northeast.”
Chart 591 shows the radiants of the Southern
Delta Aquarid (in upper right leg of Aquarius) and the Alpha
Capricornid (in the horn of Capricornus) meteor showers. The radiant is where the meteors seem to
emanate from.
The Signs Capricornus and
Aquarius portray the crucifixion, resurrection and ascension of Messiah (Capricornus)
and the pouring forth of holy spirit by Messiah ten
days after he ascended to the right hand of his Father.
The holy
spirit was poured forth to
For more insight and information on this, see the article Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower and Chart 555 in the May 2011 issue of Biblical Astronomy and parts of the article Blood Red Eclipse and Chart 563, which is a larger chart of these constellations in the June 2011 newsletter.
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